2. The Empalement magnified. 3. The Chives and Pointal. 4. The Chives detached from the Pointal; one tip magnified. 5. The Shaft and its Summit magnified. [Illustration] ERICA viscaria. CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. ERICA, antheris muticis, inclusis; corollis campanulatis, viscosis; floribus axillaribus, spicatis; calycibus foliaceis, duplicatis; foliis quaternis, linearibus, glabris. DESCRIPTIO. CAULIS fruticosus, bipedalis, erectus; rami et ramuli simplices, longi, laxi, superne viscosi. FOLIA quaterna, linearia, acuta, glabra, juniora in apicibus ramulis viscosa; petiolis adpressis. FLORES spicati in medio ramulorum, patentes, axillares; pedunculi brevissimi. CALYX. Perianthium duplex; foliolis rudibus, viscosis, adpressis, marginibus glandulosis. COROLLA campanulata, valde mucosa, purpurascens, semiquadrifida; laciniis reflexis. STAMINA. Filamenta octo linearia. Antheræ muticæ, inclusæ. PISTILLUM. Germen globosum. Stylus inclusus, filiformis. Stigma tetragonum. Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei. Floret a mensi Aprili, in Julium. REFERENTIA. 1. Calyx, et Corolla. 2. Calyx, auctus. 3. Corolla. 4. Stamina, et Pistillum. 5. Stamina a Pistillo diducta. 6. Stamen unum, auctum. 7. Stylus, et Stigma, lente aucta. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. HEATH, with beardless tips, within the blossoms, which are bell-shaped, and clammy; the flowers grow from the foot-stalks of the leaves close to the branches forming close spikes; the cups are like the leaves of the plant, and are double; the leaves grow by fours, are linear and smooth. DESCRIPTION. STEM shrubby, grows two feet high, and upright; the larger and smaller branches are simple, long, loose and clammy at the ends. LEAVES grow by fours, are linear, pointed, and smooth, the younger ones are clammy at the ends of the branches; foot-stalks pressed to the stem. FLOWERS grow in spikes about the middle of the branches, spreading out, and growing from the foot-stalks of the leaves; the foot-stalks very short. EMPALEMENT. Cup double; the leaves unequal, clammy and pressed to the blossom, with small glands on their margins. BLOSSOM bell shaped, very clammy, purple, half way cleft into four, the segments bent back. CHIVES. Eight linear threads. Tips beardless and within the blossom. POINTAL. Seed-bud globular. Shaft within the blossom and thread-shaped. Summit four-cornered. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Flowers from April, till July. REFERENCE. 1. The Empalement and Blossom. 2. The Empalement, magnified. 3. The Blossom. 4. The Chives, and Pointal. 5. The Chives detached from the Pointal. 6. A Chive, magnified. 7. The Shaft and Summit, magnified. [Illustration] ERICA Walkeria. CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. ERICA, antheris muticis, sub-inclusis, foliis quaternis, linearibus, glabris; floribus sessilibus, erectis, quaternis, terminalibus; calycis foliola margine membranacea, serrato-lacera. DESCRIPTIO.